Norwood High School - Silhouette Yearbook (Norwood, OH)

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FEBRUARY CLASS PROPHECY April 25, 1938 W It is a dull gloomy day in New York City. I am sitting at the window watching for Kathryn, who has had a matinee this afternoon at the Metropolitan Opera House. Kathryn certainly has become famous in the fourteen years since we left our dear old Norwood High School. She has studied abroad and in this country, and has had the good fortune to become a member of the Opera Company. As I was in New York when she came here, having been with several big theatrical producers for the last ten years as business manager, we decided to live together. Here comes Kathryn now. She certainly looks tired. Illl bet she is glad that tonight is the last time she sings this winter. I know Ilm glad that next week is the end of our season, because Ilm certainly worn out. I think a long vacation would be nice for us. I wonder where llDuke, as I call her, would like to go, or what she would like to do. I was reading the other day about these world cruises that so many people have been taking, and discovering how wonderful they seem. I am going to talk to Duke about it; I think it would be a splendid vacation as well as a delightful trip. May 21 e We are to sail J une twenty-fifth, on the Empress of India. We leave here at four dcloek in the afternoon and go through the Panama Canal to San Francisco; then the trip really begins. J uly 11 e It has been sixteen days since we left New York and we are near- ing San Francisco. We stopped off at Havana, Colon and Panama City At Panama City we certainly had a surprise. Duke and I wanted some travelers, checks cashed, and we decided to go to the bank to get the money instead of asking for it at the hotel. We happened to glance at the names over the win- dows of the bank, and whose name should we see there as President but that of our old friend and classmate, Freeman Young. Freeman told us he had been president of the bank for five years. He said he had come to Panama almost immediately after graduation from high school and had started in as a clerk in the institution of which he was now president. We were sorry that we could not stay longer and talk with him, but we made him promise that he would come to see us if he came to the States. He told us that that would be in the fall of next year because he is coming back to be married, but most unfortunately we forgot to ask who is the lucky'girl. July 26 g California is a wonderful state and San Francisco a lovely city. Last evening a crowd of us went to the St. Francis Hotel to a big dance. I was sitting out a dance when I heard two voices that seemed to sound familiar. I turned around to see if I knew the speakers, and to my great surprise they were Mildred Isler and Howell J ones. I sent my escort for Duke and we had a regular class reunion. Mildred said she was one of the leading ladies for the FamousePlayers Lasky Company and was down for a couple of days from Holly- wood. She had met Howell, who was living in Friscofl and was president of a large automobile concern. We told them about seeing Freeman and all about our trip. We talked till I know our escorts thought we were human 20

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CLASS WILL E, THE February Class of 1924, being of sound mind and body, do, this seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, declare this to be our last will and testament. We bequeath W 1 e To the school, our fondest memories and esteem and the remembrance of the great success of our Class Play. Ze-To the Faculty, our thanks for their efforts to put some knowledge into our vacua. 3 A To the June Class of 1924, the honor of graduating with uh. 4 e To Miss Jacob, our undying thanks for her patience during class play rehearsals. 5 - T0 the Misses Fairweather, our: appreciation for their magnili- cent guidance in Latin and French. 6 e To Mr. Hostetler, our unending gratitude for instilling into our subconscious minds the proper attitude in a class room. 7 e To underclasgmen, the hope that they will also some dety be graduated. 8 - T0 the janitors, our wish that other classes will never throw paper on the floor. In witness whereof, we, the undersigned testators, do, with the consent of the other members of our class, subscribe our names on the day above men- tioned. WARREN WELBORNE, President. Witnesses - KATHRYN CURL HOWARD KUENNING 19

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l victrolas. We certainly regretted that we had to sail today, for we should have liked to stay with them longer and to talk more about our good old school days at Norwood. August 30 a We have thoroughly enjoyed Hawaii. At noon today Duke and I, with some of the people we met on the boat, decided to go to a certain famous tea room for lunch. When we got there one of the company said that she had been there several times before and that she knew the owner, and would like to see her again. She called a waiter and asked him if the proprietor was in ; if so,t0 tell her that Miss McClary would like to see her. Here Duke and I had another surprise, for this proprietor turned out to be Elizabeth Dumont. Elizabeth told us she was crazy about her work and intended staying here for a long time as she is to be married next week to the owner of a large hotel in Honolulu. She begged us to stay for the ceremony, but boats do not wait for weddings and in a few days we sail for Japan. September 16 m We were nine days at sea from Hawaii to Yokohama. As we were coming from the boat to the hotel in a rickshaw I though I saw an old-home face coming towards us. When the little carriage passed I'knew that the face I had seen was that of a friend a I knew it was Howard Kuenning. I called to the coolie to turn around and overtake the gentlemen we had just passed. We caught up with it and both rickshaws stopped together. Howard recognized us immediately. He was so surprised I really thought his eyes were going to fall out. He told us that he had charge of the steel construction work in Yokohama and Tokio. October 1 e We spent fourteen days in J apan and Howard showed us a great time. We certainly hated to leave him, but after extracting a promise from him that he would come to see us in New York when he comes home next spring, we are sailing away to China and the Philippines. October tdate blurredi e At Manila we went to the Santa Ann, the largest dancing cabaret in the world. Here we met Ruth Miller and Ruth Moreland, who were chaperoning a group of girls from a fashionable boarding school in Massachusetts. They, too, were on a world cruise, but they had gone from New York to England, then eastward. Ruth Miller told us that she was the principal of the school and that Ruth Moreland was her assistant. We thorL oughly enjoyed seeing them and came to the conclusion that we were to meet someone we knew in every port. . November 2 - From the Philippines we went to Java, then to Singapore, and Rangoon in Burmah. From there to Calcutta. Duke and I had had shocks and surprises all along the way, but the greatest of all was the day we went inland to Benares. We were watching some magicians and noticed a very familiar person standing about ten feet from us. Duke recognized this man first and nearly dropped dead, for who should it be but Charlie Burns. We talked with him for over an hour and learned that he was a magician and was getting new tricks to take back to the States. We told him we had never heard of him professionally, but we immediately learned the reason why, for he had taken the stage name of Thomas Baker. We then remembered that we really had 21